1259309https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1224/15858/MBrownJ2205595-170131-09.1.jpgb382c9c4989cea0d3c1463997d9f2067Dublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resourceBrown, JeffJeffrey BrownJ BrownDescriptionAn account of the resource35 items. One oral history interview with Flying Officer Jeff Brown (b. 1925, 2205595, Royal Air Force), his log book, service material and photographs including 16 pictures of B-29s. He flew operations as a Flight Sergeant air gunner with 576 Squadron from RAF Fiskerton towards the end of the war and took part in Operation Manna.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Jeff Brown and catalogued by Peter Adams.PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveDateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource2017-01-182017-01-31RightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy.IdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextBrown, J-3Transcribed documentA resource consisting primarily of words for reading.TranscriptionText transcribed from audio recording or document[underlined] Air Force Ranks that I held [/underlined]
1941 – 43 ATC. Cadet, Corporal and Sergeant
1944 – Airman 2nd Class. Trainee wireless op.
1944 – Sgt. Air-gunner
1945 – Flt. Sgt Air-gunner
1946 – Flt. Sgt Air-gunner/LAC. Equiper
1947 – Sgt. Air-gunner/Cpl. Equiper
1947 – Air-gunner-Grade 2.
1949 – Air-gunner-Grade 2/Armourer/Aerial Photographer
1950 – Sgt. Air-gunner
1952 – Officer Cadet, Pilot
1953 – Pilot Officer, Pilot
1954 – DischargedDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource Air Force ranks held by Jeff BrownDescriptionAn account of the resourceList of Air Force ranks held by Jeff Brown.FormatThe file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resourceOne handwritten sheetLanguageA language of the resourceengTypeThe nature or genre of the resourceTextText. MemoirIdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextMBrownJ2205595-170131-09CoverageThe spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevantRoyal Air ForceRoyal Air Force. Bomber CommandPublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.ContributorAn entity responsible for making contributions to the resourceSteve Baldwinhttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/777/10685/PFalgateD16030085.1.jpg78ba2ac3620d8378802e3a9b3f3f322chttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/777/10685/PFalgateD16030086.1.jpg777f60f7b9caeb92c70b9da77e521408Dublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resourceFalgate, DonaldD FalgateDescriptionAn account of the resource69 items. The collection concerns Squadron Leader Don Falgate (136896 Royal Air Force) and consists of 68 pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs and a handwritten detailed account of his tour. Don Falgate trained in Canada and flew operations as a bomb aimer with 463 Squadron from RAF Waddington.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Paul Falgate and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle.PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveDateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource2016-04-07RightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.IdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextFalgate, DDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource Empress of Scotland at seaDescriptionAn account of the resourceSingle airman, with lifejacket, looking over the ships rails and lifeboats at the sea. Captioned 'A wintry day in mid Atlantic, - aboad troopship Empress of Scotland. Had to carry life jacket at all times, as ship not in convoy or escorted.'. DateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource1942FormatThe file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resourceOne b/w photographLanguageA language of the resourceengTypeThe nature or genre of the resourcePhotographIdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextPFalgateD16030085, PFalgateD16030086CoverageThe spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevantRoyal Air ForceTemporal CoverageTemporal characteristics of the resource.1942Spatial CoverageSpatial characteristics of the resource.Atlantic OceanPublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/473/8356/ABowkerD151117.1.mp39057f5e6582c49eede1f793d70248410Dublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resourceBowker, DavidD G BowkerD BowkerPublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveIdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextBowker, DGDescriptionAn account of the resource15 Items. An oral history interview with Flight Lieutenant David Bowker (142854 Royal Air Force) and 14 propaganda leaflets. David Bowker flew operations as a pilot with 103 and 150 Squadrons.
The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by David Bowker and catalogued by Barry Hunter.
Transcribed audio recordingA resource consisting primarily of recorded human voice.TranscriptionText transcribed from audio recording or documentDB: I’m David Bowker giving this interview and, and these are my, my thoughts. When I was, when I was eighteen in 1940. I went to the recruiting office in Southsea and volunteered for air sea rescue in the RAF because we lived at Alverstoke and we watched the practice, the air force practice dropping torpedoes and they were launching, rescuing the torpedoes. Air sea rescue. But anyway the recruiting office wrote to me and said that it was all full but presumably with elder yachtsmen but I could join, I could still join the navy or the air force or the army just as I wished but I had no, I had no thought, no thought of flying at the time and so I was offered, in the RAF, general duties. Well, of course I had no idea what general duties meant but in actual fact it turned out that if you were fit you were going to fly and the disaster was I was sent to, sent to Cardington and then I had an interview at Cardington and I think he was a sergeant and he said, ‘How do you know you’re eighteen?’ And I said, ‘Well I’m eighteen.’ And he said, ‘Well you don’t look it to me.’ But anyway, I had to, I had to produce my birth certificate to prove that I was eighteen. Anyway, I ended up in the RAF general duties and was sent to, was sent to Blackpool and I found that I was streamed into wireless operator/air gunner. Well, that was the very last thing I wanted to do and so myself and another and a friend at the time we went and saw the officer in charge to ask whether we could re-muster to pilot instead of air gunner and of course we had to, we had to be tested with Morse, Morse code, eighteen words a minute, which was quite fast actually. And anyway, fortunately I passed it and we, and then we started all over again and we were sent to, sent to Stratford on Avon on a pilot’s course and from the receiving wing at Stratford on Avon it was, we were billeted in a disused old hotel which, which was completely derelict and we had to even tear up newspapers to, to use in the lavatory. I can’t, I can’t imagine how primitive it was at the time. But anyway we went from there and we had our meals in the Shakespeare Hotel. Airforce food of course. And from there we had lectures in the Shakespeare Theatre given by, given by a corporal on gas and all sorts of things and from there we, I was posted to Scarborough at the Cambridge Hotel and there again it was, it was very primitive. Still with straw palliases for our, on our beds and we kitted out with flying gear in the Grand Hotel, Scarborough and then, what happened then? I remember we went to a, to a, ah yes we went from Scarborough to Burnaston near, near in Derbyshire which, which was a small, a small aerodrome flying, flying Miles Magisters and we were billeted in, in an old house at Repton School in Repton village and again, again our beds consisted of straw palliases which was very uncomfortable. I was wondering when I was going to get a decent bed. Anyway, we learnt to fly in Miles Magisters and from there, from there we, I was posted to Shawbury flying Airspeed Oxfords and there was an entire, day flying and when we were posted to, for night flying we were, we were posted to Cranwell and in the college complete with batman and then feeding in the college and some night flying and that was very satisfactory. But I remember my first solo night flying. I remember it very well because it was pitch dark and then when I took my eyes off the, off the flying panel I felt the plane immediately started tilting to the left and when I corrected myself with the flying in looking at the instruments although I was straight and level it appeared to be flying to the right. But anyway I soon learned, soon learned to look at the flying panel but I must say I do, I do remember having quite a scary, scary time but we returned to, to, and after having the chief flying instructor’s test I remember we were given some sergeant’s stripes to sew on together with the pilot’s wings which we had to sew on ourselves of course. From there I was posted to an Operational Training Unit flying Wellingtons at Pershore and that took us to -
JB: [whisper] Stop it.
[machine pause]
DB: Ok.
JB: It’s interesting to me David that you’d just qualified as a pilot and was there not some hesitation that you, at your young age, was taking charge of a big aeroplane and a crew who might have been older than you?
DB: Yes. Well, basically they were a year or two older than me.
JB: Yes. Presumably they had to be. So how did you feel about that?
DB: Well, I didn’t have any feelings at the time because it was just how things were.
JB: Well now you’re qualified -
DB: In fact some of the older people, when it came to the exams, the meteorology etcetera, one or two of the older people, because I was younger and only recently left school they asked me as if I, as if I knew better than them.
JB: So, now you had got a crew together who were mixed nationalities?
DB: Well yes. Basically all English. The rear gunner was a New Zealander.
JB: What was your navigator then?
DB: He was an Englishman.
JB: Because on him you rely a lot presumably.
DB: Hmmn?
JB: You rely a lot on a navigator presumably.
DB: Yes one does.
JB: Just turn it off.
[pause]
MJ: Alright.
DB: In, in retrospect, thinking about it, when I was on the squadron we, we, the pilots we never had any discussion about tactics or anything. We would, before an operation we were briefed about, about where they had anti-aircraft guns and that sort of thing but as, as a pilot we never had any meetings of pilots to discuss, to personally discuss any tactics that we might have. It struck me as being very extraordinary.
MJ: What about crew decisions? Did you, was it, was there decisions between the crew, between yourself and your crew more than the hierarchy?
DB: Well I don’t, it’s extraordinary ‘cause I don’t think we did. Never had any discussion about it.
[Machine pause]
And it was just left, left to ourselves to do what we, we were very rarely told when to bomb or what height to bomb or anything. It was entirely left to us. In 1942 anyway. Maybe, it was a bit different later but it struck me that we, that the flight commander, you know, never had any, any guidance on, on what to do or anything. It really does, it does amaze me. We were just told where the target was and where the, where the flak was on the way out and that sort of thing. We could go our own direction. We hadn’t, we’d know. We weren’t told any fixed thing. We were entirely left to ourselves to get to the target. I mean, in retrospect to me it’s amazing that we had no, no guidance about this but, but on the, when I was on the squadron at 103 we converted to the original Halifaxes and we were sent to Rufforth near York where, where Leonard Cheshire was the squadron leader at the time and the original Halifaxes were absolutely death traps because if the, if the two engines failed on one side and you had to correct it with the rudder normally with an aeroplane you could correct it if the engines failed but with the original Halifaxes the rudder could lock over and there was nothing you could do about it if the thing went into a spin and, and so they were absolutely death traps and the funny thing was although I completed the course and Squadron Leader Cheshire, he demonstrated to me how the rudders locked over by instantly correcting, you know. You expected it. And when I was flying with him he demonstrated how the rudder locked over but I mean, if, if you didn’t know about it and you didn’t correct it instantly I mean, it got fixed. But very soon afterwards the original Halifaxes had an enlarged rudder, a large rudder and I think it was quite, they were quite satisfactory after that but in actual fact, funnily enough, there was myself and another youngster and when we finished the course the Squadron Leader Cheshire suggested that we would be happier if we went back on to Wellingtons and the fact, of course one was disappointed at the time and I was posted to 150 squadron but I think the whole, the whole of 103 with the Halifaxes because one time after one, after one raid I was diverted back to Elsham and when I was in the, we, I was diverted back to Elsham because Snaith where 150 squadron was was fogbound and so we and, and when I went into the mess I didn’t recognise anybody on 103 and they’d practically all, had so many fatal crashes with the, with the original Halifaxes that the squadrons were converted to, in late ‘42 the squadron converted to Lancasters instead of the Halifaxes.
JB: Coffee?
[machine pause]
MJ: It’s all yours.
JB: I was thirteen when the war began and came from a very privileged background and I do remember that my own experience of world affairs was nil. It was Children’s, Children’s radio. Uncle Mac, or some very silly, childish things and The Children’s Newspaper which now doesn’t exist and that was all I knew about what went on in the world apart from my cosy life and I remember standing in the room with my parents, listening to the radio and Chamberlain giving this dreadful speech, ‘We are now at war.’ And I do remember clearly and now, in retrospect, you actually wonder about it, saying to my parents, ‘Will it be fun? War.’ Now, I do you know it was not fun. And I went straight from there to school where we were bombed heavily because it was right beside Handley Page but nobody in the school told us that what we were hearing was mostly anti-aircraft fire. It was not bombing and we lived a life in air raid shelters frightened to bits simply because of the lack of communication of what was going on. We were not allowed to have radios or anything, in case, this was a very strict Methodist school, in case somebody found out a brother or somebody had been on a boat that had been, you know, sunk or whatever. So we had no contact with the outside world whatsoever. However, it was such that by sixteen I went up to university. London University but transferred to Leicester to study economics. Now, wartime study was different because they altered up the curriculum and I was only allowed to do two years. Well, it’s three years for a degree and I did two years and went in to some ridiculous war work in London and I can remember, we discussed the other day, David and I, what we both did on D-Day and I walked from Hammersmith to where I was living in Marble Arch through crowds of people, all jubilation, and then I could not go back to university and the reason I could not go back was because the men had all come back from the war and, quite rightly, after their war service they took all the places and women lost out because of the generation we happened to be. The luck was that we did this two years, finish. No degree. Frankly, it doesn’t actually matter in the world because people, not many people ask you whether you’ve got a degree or not so that’s really what my war was like.
[Machine pause]
MJ: Thank you David for your wife’s int, before she had to go in a hurry so we’ll carry on with what we were saying.
DB: Right. Yes, I always, in retrospect, was very thankful for, very thankful for being sent to another squadron on Wellingtons because a Wellington could take an awful lot of damage and still fly which, which, of course, happened to me on a, on a raid on Frankfurt. We were very badly damaged and after gaining control at about, at about a thousand feet we managed to, to stay, to stay airborne, to fly home and crossing the French coast at about five hundred feet I remember very well a lot of tracer bullets flying over, following me overhead. We weren’t hit because obviously it appeared that they couldn’t elevate their guns low enough to, because we were so low all the, all the bullets were going overhead but anyway, I mean, because we were halfway across the channel the um -
[Machine pause?]
MJ: It’s on.
DB: Yes. Halfway across the channel the petrol gauge read nothing and my wireless operator told base that we were going to ditch in the channel but we were persuaded to carry on to, and follow the searchlights, to follow the searchlights on to Manston aerodrome. And whether, and I was following the searchlights towards Manston when of course we ran out of petrol and crashed near Lympne and, but of course it’s, I mean it’s a long, it’s a long story but we –
[Machine pause]
MJ: [?] it’s on.
DB: The, when we, when we crashed just north of Folkestone, the second pilot, I don’t believe was strapped in ‘cause I’m not sure that the second pilot’s position had straps but anyway he was killed together with the bomb aimer who was aft who was aft by the main, main boom because the plane caught fire and the, although the second pilot got out he more or less died after getting out the, and the bomb aimer was stuck in and I believe got burnt to death. But anyway after, after this episode we were, the survivors were flown back to, to Snaith and after, after flying on one training trip I was posted to a target towing unit flying, flying Lysanders towing a target for, for, for other squadrons along the coast from Grimsby down to Skegness.
[machine pause]
MJ: It’s on.
DB: But maybe after, after being a survivor, I don’t know why, I don’t know. I can’t think of any particular reason but except that maybe when someone has had a shaky do like that perhaps, perhaps it was normal to be posted to a non-operational -
MJ: Role.
DB: Type of thing.
MJ: Mind you, I don’t think being shot at by [laughs] by trainees is a safer occupation is it?
DB: No. But er I was on the target towing unit for about six months and then was posted as an instructor to an OTU. I mean, I mean at the time one just went along with what happened. I mean, one didn’t, one, I personally didn’t have any say myself on what, on what happened. And if one got posted I didn’t argue with it. No.
MJ: Did you prefer the coastal work or the training?
DB: Hmmn?
MJ: Did you prefer the coastal work or the training work?
DB: Did I?
MJ: You did the drone bit. Did you prefer training the troops or did you prefer being the target if you see what I, ‘cause when you flew -
DB: Well one, one towed the target, it’s a sleeve. You had the operator, you know. I was the pilot but the person at the back there trailed, trailed the, the drogue on long wire. I mean, he had control over how long a wire he put it because we, I don’t know whether you know Spurn Head off the Humber but we towed the target on a very long, a very long wire for the army ‘cause we didn’t really trust the army [laughs] but anyway for the, for the anti-aircraft practice. But there, it was all, it was all quite a, quite a job because we did two or three trips a day. You know, we did work quite hard but after that I was posted to an Operational Training Unit as an instructor.
[Machine pause]
MJ: [pause] It’s on now.
JB: David, in which stage in this saga did you take on the job of testing aircraft that had been in the repair shop to see if they were good enough to fly again?
DB: That was, that was some time after I was -
JB: Shot down?
DB: It er, no, it was after and I was, I was seconded to a maintenance unit.
JB: Yes, but does that come between the target towing, the shooting down and the target towing or does it come after the target towing?
DB: After the target towing. Yes.
JB: After the target towing.
DB: Yes.
JB: So you were just handed this book of instructions for an aeroplane and said -
DB: Well it was –
JB: Take it up and see if it will go. Well obviously it did otherwise you wouldn’t still be here, would you?
DB: No. Well I was very, very, yes, with the Hurricane for instance one had to be ‘cause you couldn’t have any two -
JB: No. There was -
DB: Two.
JB: Nobody else in it.
DB: No.
JB: You couldn’t, it was a one seater.
DB: There was –
JB: But then do you, do you enter in to a thing like this with an excitement of something, that this is something new or with great fear that have they done a good enough job that this is my last moment?
DB: Oh you mean on the maintenance unit?
JB: Yes. I mean did you actually think every time you got in to a different aeroplane they wanted you to test that this is an excitement or did you think oh my God I may be dead by tomorrow?
DB: No. No [laughs] I never thought. I just thought –
JB: Eternal optimist are you?
DB: Well yes.
JB: I see. Your glass is always half full obviously. Yes I see.
DB: Well, until, until the time came when the life raft flew out.
JB: Oh yes. Yes. And this is when you were testing what? A Halifax?
DB: No. A Wellington.
JB: A Wellington. And tell me what happened.
DB: Well the, when I -
JB: The life raft inflated did you tell me?
DB: Well it feathered, you know, when I had to take, I went, took these aeroplanes on test so when I took off I had to feather the propellers and check everything worked and I remember feathering the starboard propeller. There was a tremendous bang and I didn’t know what it was.
JB: Quite unnerving.
DB: There was this huge bang and the inflatable dinghy, the rubber inflatable dinghy had flown out of its case behind the engine and wrapped itself around the tail plane and then as soon as this huge bang and I thought, ‘Christ what’s that?’
JB: Well you would.
DB: Because I lost control. The elevators were locked because this thing was, if you can imagine, the thing had collapsed and prevented the elevators from working.
JB: So how did you get the aeroplane down then?
DB: By the televator well of course it’s a long story.
JB: Well just tell me quickly ‘cause I haven’t got all night. Yes.
DB: Well the controls were rigid rods.
JB: Yes.
DB: And so of course the whole of the tail plane was skewed. The rigid rods didn’t -
JB: Yeah.
DB: Work because -
JB: So how do you correct that to get it down?
DB: Well the fin tabs.
JB: Yes.
DB: Were on a separate thing. That’s the elevator and the fin tabs is another -
JB: David this is -
DB: Another little tab.
JB: This is not visual darling.
DB: Yes.
JB: There’s no good telling me like that.
DB: No. Quite.
JB: No. Just tell me. So you’ve got the plane down by being rather clever.
DB: By using, use of the twin tabs.
JB: Is that when you got your green endorsement in the -
DB: Yes.
JB: For being clever.
DB: Yeah.
JB: And am I correct in thinking that that is when they found out what happened with a lot of the Halifaxes? Is that anything to do -
DB: No. Nothing to do with the Halifaxes. No.
JB: The Halifaxes just had a fault on them to start with.
DB: No. The Halifaxes, the original, the original -
JB: The original Halifaxes, yes, had a fault in them.
DB: The later ones had a bigger
JB: Yes.
DB: Tailfin.
JB: Yes. So it was the tailfin on the early ones that -
DB: Yes.
JB: Caused all the problems.
DB: Or lack of it.
JB: Lack of it. That everybody was killed.
DB: Yes.
JB: Now, I want to go back to when you were shot down.
DB: Yes.
JB: And you managed to get over the channel.
DB: Yes.
JB: Have we all done all this?
MJ: Yeah. We -
JB: But have you also pointed out that the young man who was killed whose name I remember because I write a cross for him every year.
DB: Yes.
JB: Have you, have you remembered to say that he had gone to the CO the day before?
DB: No. That was the bomb aimer. Young Lapping.
JB: Well, it was the bomb aimer.
DB: Yes.
JB: Young Lapping. Yes. His name was Lapping.
DB: No. I didn’t mention it.
JB: Well he’d gone to the CO the day before. This is what you told me.
DB: Yeah. This was the bomb aimer.
MJ: Yeah.
DB: Who was killed? He’d actually, the day before he’d actually been to the CO which I think he was quite a, quite a -
JB: Quite brave.
DB: Brave thing to do.
JB: A brave thing to do. Yes.
DB: To, to tell the CO that he’d had enough. He couldn’t -
JB: He’d lost his nerve. Couldn’t go any more.
DB: And the CO called me in.
JB: As the pilot.
DB: As the pilot. To tell young [Lapping] to pull himself together and then he was killed that night. So -
MJ: Yeah.
DB: But I mean he had, he had -
JB: And as a consequence you see -
DB: A brave thing to do to go to your CO -
JB: Yes. Because -
DB: To say you’d had enough.
JB: There were people weren’t there who were labelled LMF.
DB: Yes.
JB: That’s lack of moral fibre.
DB: LMF.
JB: Who just disappeared off the screen, off the section.
DB: Yes. I had a rear gunner who just didn’t -
JB: Yes. Just didn’t appear -
DB: Who didn’t, who didn’t turn up one evening.
JB: But they weren’t staying on the station.
DB: And the next, the next, by the next morning he’d gone.
JB: LMF. That was the label.
DB: Lack of moral fibre.
JB: Moral fibre.
MJ: What made them give you the job of testing the planes because I don’t know how they decided?
JB: Because, because he was a good pilot. [can’t be plainer than that can we?]
DB: Well I was -
JB: Steady. Steady chap.
DB: Seconded. Well someone, someone had to do it.
MJ: Yeah it’s just -
DB: Well, it’s after an engine change or after a crash. If any plane had been repaired.
JB: Well after this crash -
DB: Or major service.
JB: After you had got the plane back and was told to ditch in the channel. Yes? And you got it back into this wood in Kent and ended up in a tree.
DB: Yes.
JB: And they were killed. The two of them.
DB: Yes.
JB: And you were injured. What, you went off to hospital, all of you, presumably, that were still alive but now we know where the plane is, don’t we?
DB: Yes.
JB: ‘Cause we found it.
DB: Yes.
JB: We know it’s in the wood just –
DB: Yes.
JB: North of Folkestone. We know exactly where it is if we look at a map.
DB: Exactly.
JB: We went to look for it. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get into the wood ‘cause it’s wired off but we could actually, we could point out where it is but -
DB: Yes.
JB: He has actually got the engine number plate. I suppose it’s a number plate.
DB: Yes.
JB: I don’t know. From, from the plane. But we know -
DB: Yes.
JB: It’s still there, what’s left of it, but of course as a Wellington is wooden it’s probably only bits of an engine there now. So when you’d done all this testing and being shot at by the army eventually they let you not fly anymore did they? Or you trained people. You were training pilots. I know that on D-Day you were doing familiarisations. That’s a difficult word.
DB: Yes.
JB: On, for pilots, training pilots and you took four flights ‘cause we looked into the question of D-Day when the celebrations came up for D-Day and you made four flights that day with different people to familiarise them with -
DB: Yes I’d forgotten. Funny you should remember.
JB: Well -
DB: I’d forgotten.
JB: I only remember because on the celebration of D-Day.
DB: Yes.
JB: I was able to tell you where I was.
DB: Yes.
JB: And you, so, I said to you, ‘Well, where were you?’ and you couldn’t remember so we looked in your logbooks which are still here.
DB: Yes.
JB: As is your, as is your uniform, your Irvin jacket.
DB: Yeah.
JB: Your goggles. Everything. Still here. Got it all.
MJ: [? to take one]
JB: It’s all stashed away in the cupboard here. I don’t think you’d be able to get in to it now though. I think the ravages of time made us all rather fatter.
MJ: Fine.
JB: You should turn it off.
MJ: Off.
[Machine pause]
JB: Now, David. My theory about the logbooks. You’ve still got three logbooks. Yes.
DB: I think it must be right. Yes.
JB: And I think my theory because I have a very nasty mind I think is that the first one is thick.
DB: Yes.
JB: And as -
DB: Yes.
JB: You get further on the logbooks get thinner. Now do you think, my theory is because they don’t expect you to last very long?
DB: No. I would say, I would think so.
JB: You think that’s the answer.
DB: Yes.
JB: So the longer you are active in the RAF during the war
DB: You got -
JB: You got a thinner logbook because there would be no point giving you a thick one if they didn’t expect you to last more than five goes would there?
DB: No.
JB: Do you think that’s true?
DB: The original one is thick.
JB: And the next two get thinner and thinner. Has anyone any theory as to why that is apart from my theory?
DB: Could be economy.
MJ: No. You’re right.
JB: I’m right. Aren’t I right about it? Yes. David, you know young Lapping, who we put a memorial cross for -
DB: Yes
JB: Every year. Am I right in thinking that after he was killed, and he must have been a very young man.
DB: Right.
JB: His father joined up in the RAF.
DB: Yes.
JB: In memory of his son and was also killed.
DB: Yes.
JB: He was killed at a later stage wasn’t he?
DB: Well -
JB: The father.
DB: What? The father was?
JB: Yes. Yes, and I know they come from Yorkshire and I keep meaning to try and get hold of some archivist in Yorkshire and look up that name and see if we can’t sort it. [whisper] Turn it off.
[Machine pause]
JB: Family, we know that
DB: Yes.
JB: And the other chap is dead as well. We know that. David, after you came out of the RAF and every time we drive past Stoney Cross you tell me that was where your last posting was.
DB: Yes.
JB: And it was handing out money to returning crews.
DB: Yes.
JB: You bought a Tiger Moth did you not?
DB: Yes.
JB: And how much did that cost?
DB: The Tiger Moth cost two hundred pounds
JB: And you kept it at Portsmouth Airport as it -
DB: Yes.
JB: Then was. And why did you want it?
DB: Why did I want it?
JB: Yes.
DB: Well, I may have just -
JB: What use did you make of it? You flew to Cowes to go sailing, yes?
DB: Yes.
JB: Because you’d always been a keen sailor.
DB: Yes.
JB: And you flew to Cowes.
DB: Yes.
JB: And you sailed against the Duke of Edinburgh.
DB: Yes.
JB: In [f for fox?].
DB: Yes.
JB: In a dragon boat that you had -
DB: Yes.
JB: Built yourself when you bought a boatyard in Bosworth building wooden boats.
DB: Yes.
JB: And eventually built a boat that went to the Olympics in 1956 where got your silver medal for sailing.
DB: Yes.
JB: Enough.
MJ: [is it?]
JB: Enough said. When you left the RAF -
DB: Yes.
JB: Was it 1946?
DB: Yes.
JB: What did they give you by way of remuneration for all your efforts for six years or whatever?
DB: A hundred and twenty pounds.
JB: A hundred and twenty pounds.
DB: Yes.
JB: Well, that was your total pay off was it?
DB: Yes.
JB: But no pension of course.
DB: No.
JB: But did you get, you got a clothing did you not?
DB: A coupon, I believe we did. I can’t honestly remember.
JB: Well you can remember because we still have the trilby hat and the raincoat here.
DB: Yes. I can’t remember about the coup -
JB: We don’t have the sports jacket anymore and I think that was all.
DB: I can’t -
JB: Did they give you any trousers? They must have given you some trousers.
DB: Yes.
JB: A pair of flannels I suppose.
DB: I expect so.
JB: Yes. But the trilby hat -
DB: Well they didn’t give you -
JB: They gave you coupons.
DB: It was in Ruislip.
JB: Yes.
DB: And we just wandered around on this, you know, and picked the clothes ourselves.
JB: Oh I see. And that was your choice?
DB: You were allowed to -
JB: You didn’t, you didn’t -
DB: To take a jacket and trousers.
JB: You didn’t think of getting a city suit then? You preferred to have a sports jacket.
DB: Yes.
JB: And a pair of flannels.
DB: Yes. Yes.
JB: And a raincoat and a trilby hat.
DB: Yes.
JB: We still have the trilby hat and the raincoat somewhere.
DB: Yes I think we -
JB: They were frequently used by some amateur dramatics who wish to -
DB: I think the raincoats gone hasn’t it?
JB: Yes.
DB: Yeah.
JB: But the trilby hat and the raincoat, I think they’re still in the workshop.
DB: Yeah.
JB: And I think you still, we still give them out for amateur dramatics. Dressing up a tramp. Since they were given to you in 1946 they’re pretty -
DB: Yeah.
JB: Pretty, only fit for that now.
DB: Yes.
JB: So a hundred and twenty pounds was the maximum. Was the total -
DB: Yes.
JB: And that was for being a flight lieutenant.
DB: But I think we got some clothing coupons.
JB: Yes, well that’s what you bought with the clothing coupons but then if you got a hundred and twenty pounds and you were by then a flight lieutenant which means -
DB: Yes.
JB: You’ve gone through five ranks.
DB: Well, where, where have my logbooks gone?
JB: It seems pretty poor pay to me but that’s all you got and no pension of course.
DB: Yes.
MJ: Right, well -
JB: Off.
MJ: Yeah. On behalf of the International Bomber Command I’d like to thank David and Jackie Bowker at their home in Southampton for their -
DB: No, it’s Emsworth. We’re in Emsworth now darling.
MJ: Yeah. On the 17th of -
DB: November.
MJ: November 2015.Dublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource Interview with David BowkerCreatorAn entity primarily responsible for making the resourceMick JefferyPublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveDateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource2015-11-17FormatThe file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource00:48:45 Audio FileTypeThe nature or genre of the resourceSoundIdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextABowkerD151117Conforms ToAn established standard to which the described resource conforms.Pending revision of transcriptionPending reviewRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.LanguageA language of the resourceengCoverageThe spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevantRoyal Air ForceRoyal Air Force. Bomber CommandDescriptionAn account of the resourceDavid Bowker joined the Air Force and was originally training to be a wireless operator / air gunner but remustered as a pilot. He discusses rudder lock on early versions of Halifax. Jacqueline Bowker his wife, discusses her life during the war and being bombed. Returning from an operation to Frankfurt his aircraft crashed and some of his crew were killed. After this he was posted to a target towing flight and later became an instructor at an Operational Training Unit and a test pilot at at Maintenance Unit. He also discusses a time when an aircraft's dingy deployed in flight jamming his controls. Spatial CoverageSpatial characteristics of the resource.GermanyGreat BritainEngland--BedfordshireEngland--DerbyshireEngland--KentEngland--LincolnshireEngland--NottinghamshireEngland--ShropshireEngland--YorkshireEngland--FolkestoneEngland--Spurn HeadGermany--Frankfurt am MainTemporal CoverageTemporal characteristics of the resource.1942103 Squadron150 SquadronaircrewbombingbriefingCheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992)crashHalifaxHalifax Mk 1Hurricanelack of moral fibreLysanderMagistermilitary living conditionsmilitary service conditionsoperational training unitOxfordpilotPrince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-)RAF CardingtonRAF Elsham WoldsRAF PershoreRAF RufforthRAF ShawburyRAF SnaithTiger MothtrainingWellingtonhttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1252/16744/PCheshireGL18030031.1.jpg0967670f48e5a20489d99d8f03cf9267https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1252/16744/PCheshireGL18030032.1.jpg2ec553c02b963ab476e98a8436dd067aDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resourceCheshire, LeonardCheshire, Geoffrey LeonardBaron CheshireDescriptionAn account of the resource374 items concerning Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC, OM, DSO & Two Bars, DFC. Collection consists of photographs of people, vehicles, places, aircraft, weapons and targets; documents including, private and service letters, signals, telegrams, intelligence reports, crew lists and official documents. Cheshire served on 102 and 35 Squadrons and commanded 76 and 617 Squadrons. The collection includes details of 617 Squadron's precision bombing operations.
The collection has been licenced to the IBCC Digital Archive by The Leonard Cheshire Archive and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.Dublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource La Ricamerie factoryDescriptionAn account of the resourceLow level oblique aerial photograph showing large bright explosions in the centre with a building to its left. Another building further left appears to be on fire. On the reverse 'Cam 2, Ops 142, Daylight/Night attack on La Ricamerie, Date 10/11-3 44, Sqdn 617, pilot W/C Cheshire DSO, DFC, a/c Lancaster, 51/41'.DateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource1944-03-101944-03-11FormatThe file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resourceOne b/w photographTypeThe nature or genre of the resourcePhotographIdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextPCheshireGL18030031, PCheshireGL18030032CoverageThe spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevantRoyal Air ForceRoyal Air Force. Bomber CommandSpatial CoverageSpatial characteristics of the resource.FranceFrance--Saint-Étienne (Loire)Temporal CoverageTemporal characteristics of the resource.1944-03-101944-03-11Is Part OfA related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.Cheshire, Leonard. Bombing of the La Ricamarie factory, Saint-Étienne (10/11 November 1944)PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveLicenseA legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource.Royalty-free permission to publishRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is property of the Leonard Cheshire Archive which has kindly granted the International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive a royalty-free permission to publish it. Please note that it was digitised by a third-party which used technical specifications that may differ from those used by International Bomber Command Centre Digital Archive. It has been published here ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre.617 Squadronaerial photographbombingCheshire, Geoffrey Leonard (1917-1992)Lancasterhttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/365/10526/PWardEM1604.1.jpg6938beaf116faed7ccea231f5b64e715https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/365/10526/PWardEM1603.1.jpg2eeed2a0df5f70b70d963a10afa865c2Dublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resourceWard, Mary Mary WardElsie Mary WardE M WardMary BrownDescriptionAn account of the resourceSix items. Three oral history interviews with Elizabeth Mary Ward (893293, Women's Auxiliary Air Force), her dog tags, an aeroplane broach and a photograph album. Mary Ward was a cook but re-mustered and was promoted becoming a map officer. She served with Bomber Command at RAF Driffield between 1940 and 1944 before being posted to Coastal Command.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Mary ward and catalogued by Trevor Hardcastle. PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveDateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource2016-04-24RightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy. IdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextWard, EMDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource Mary Wards' dog tagsDescriptionAn account of the resourceWomen’s Auxiliary Air Force dog tags issued to 893293 Mary Ward tied with ribbon.FormatThe file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resourceTwo dog tags on a ribbonTypeThe nature or genre of the resourcePhysical objectIdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextPWardEM1603, PWardEM1604CoverageThe spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevantRoyal Air ForcePublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.ground personnelWomen’s Auxiliary Air Forcehttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/769/9423/PDexterKI1705.2.jpg2042af2d50f36b3b2d612bfd8ca53b3bhttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/769/9423/PDexterKI1706.2.jpg287ff20d817b310ff2ad29e1fa098ddchttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/769/9423/PDexterKI1707.2.jpge55426f2428f9d0ede0fd1f9c1876844https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/769/9423/PDexterKI1708.2.jpg0732268a930ca7c9a2f35c8429797a02https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/769/9423/PDexterKI1709.2.jpgb7125722a0bf2578d4b7b369ca58b1e9https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/769/9423/PDexterKI1710.2.jpg785dd6e61ba9b1b04cd8d4f2d6fb3d79Dublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resourceDexter, Keith IngerDexter, DecK I DexterDescriptionAn account of the resource33 items. The collection concerns Flying Officer Keith Dexter (1911 - 1943, 127249, 1387607 Royal Air Force ), a policeman before the war, he flew as a pilot with 103 Squadron at RAF Elsham Wolds. He was shot down and killed with all his crew on 16/17 June 1943 on operations against Cologne. Collection contains a dozen letters from 'Dec' Dexter to Phyllis Dexter,There is an extract from the 103 Squadron Operational Record Book on the loss of his aircraft and crew, maps of where his aircraft crashed, official Royal Air Force personnel records, Netherlands official documents, document about his aircraft as well as a photograph of a Lancaster over Lincoln and a crew. There are photographs of his grave as well as a group of people, including Keith Dexter being interviewed as a pilot trainee by the BBC at RAF Hatfield. There are two detailed daily diaries covering his time in the Royal Air Force from from 3 April 1941 to June 1943 which relate activities while training and on operations. There are some memorabilia, a photograph of a Lancaster over Lincoln, a painting, and an <a href="https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/show/770">album</a>. <br /><br />The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Lieutenant Colonel Monty Dexter-Banks and catalogued by Nigel Huckins.<br /><br />Additional information on Ian Archer Wynn is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/dexter-ki/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveDateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource2017-08-30RightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.IdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextDexter, KIDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource.303 bulletsDescriptionAn account of the resourceSide and end views of three .303 bullets, one with debris round its middle.FormatThe file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resourceThree bulletsTypeThe nature or genre of the resourcePhysical objectIdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextPDexterKI1705, PDexterKI1706, PDexterKI1707, PDexterKI1708, PDexterKI1709, PDexterKI1710RightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveConforms ToAn established standard to which the described resource conforms.MD0 stablehttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1221/15079/SAttwoodSG1814420v10021.2.jpg2d183cbbde54cf94779e3d2c60f3de46https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1221/15079/SAttwoodSG1814420v10022.2.jpg635541ffc39b11659569f90d87852366https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1221/15079/SAttwoodSG1814420v10023.2.jpg4403b3016f81fbb11264c0b22ac3c90chttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1221/15079/SAttwoodSG1814420v10024.2.jpg8a1be7360aa7c16c77b803e134a5633chttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1221/15079/SAttwoodSG1814420v10025.2.jpg24b96a52332bf4aa84f5c6dbb79271c8https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1221/15079/SAttwoodSG1814420v10026.2.jpg2ff49c3fd867281de35c436160412488https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1221/15079/SAttwoodSG1814420v10027.2.jpg4ec4f9a4f0db90f5aa885f3f4be1160ehttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1221/15079/SAttwoodSG1814420v10028.2.jpg2369e7772476ea1c85cda1425dc41921Dublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resourceAttwood, Stanley GordonAttwood, S G DescriptionAn account of the resource19 items. The collection concerns Stanley Gordon Attwood (1924 - 1983) and includes photographs and newspaper cuttings that mainly relate to a documentary made in 1969 about a Lancaster aircrew of 50 Squadron reunited after 25 years.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Andrea Giles and catalogued by Barry Hunter.PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveDateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource2017-09-24RightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy.IdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextAttwood, SGDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource'If I don't come back' documentary newspaper cuttingsDescriptionAn account of the resourceCutting 1 is a small photograph of a Lancaster and for of the crew with the time and day of the airing of the documentary.
Cutting 2 is an explanation of the idea of why the documentary was made and some detail about what inspired it.
Cutting 3 is the seven ex-airmen in front of a Lancaster. There is a short explanation about the documentary.
Cutting 4 is a Lancaster taking off with a brief note about the documentary.
Cutting 5 is an extract from a TV guide about the documentary.
Cutting 6 is the seven ex-airmen standing at the front of a Lancaster, with brief details when the documentary is being aired.
Cutting 7 is a television listing and brief description about the documentary.
Cutting 8 is a longer article about the reunion of the aircrew of O for Oboe at Waddington in 1969. Their post-war lives are described.
Cutting 9 is from a TV guide and has a photograph of the seven ex-airmen standing in front of a Lancaster.
Cutting 10 and 11 are reviews of the documentary.
DateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource1969-07FormatThe file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource11 newspaper cuttings from eight pages of a scrapbookLanguageA language of the resourceengTypeThe nature or genre of the resourceTextIdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextSAttwoodSG1814420v10021,
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SAttwoodSG1814420v10023,
SAttwoodSG1814420v10024,
SAttwoodSG1814420v10025,
SAttwoodSG1814420v10026,
SAttwoodSG1814420v10027,
SAttwoodSG1814420v10028
CoverageThe spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevantCivilianRoyal Air ForceRoyal Air Force. Bomber CommandRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveSpatial CoverageSpatial characteristics of the resource.Great BritainTemporal CoverageTemporal characteristics of the resource.1944Conforms ToAn established standard to which the described resource conforms.Pending OH transcription50 SquadronaircrewLancasterRAF Waddingtonhttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1002/11310/SHumphreyE2098310v10001-0001.1.jpg091b8b4cd9055c7c86d29721594bb274https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1002/11310/SHumphreyE2098310v10001-0002.1.jpg88a0e22129ad0b233587fc01473ba63dDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resourceHumphrey, ElizabethE HumphreyDescriptionAn account of the resourceSeven items. The collection concerns Elizabeth Humphrey (b. 1924, 2098310 Royal Air Force) and contains a photograph, service material and an exercise book with hand drawn diagrams and training notes. She joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force and served in Balloon Command before remustering as an instrument technician and being posted to 12 Squadron at RAF Wickenby.
The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by F Joseph and catalogued by Barry Hunter.PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveDateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource2018-05-22RightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.IdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextHumphrey, EDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource'Let's Go Mad' ProgrammeDescriptionAn account of the resourceA programme for the revue 'Let's Go Mad' presented by The Station Revue Company at RAF Boscombe Down.
Also included are a pass out and an invitation to a dance at RAF Stradishall.DateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource1944-031946-04FormatThe file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resourceTwo printed sheets and one handwritten sheetLanguageA language of the resourceengTypeThe nature or genre of the resourceTextText. Service materialIdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextSHumphreyE2098310v10001-0001,
SHumphreyE2098310v10001-0001=2CoverageThe spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevantRoyal Air ForceRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveSpatial CoverageSpatial characteristics of the resource.Great BritainEngland--SuffolkEngland--WiltshireTemporal CoverageTemporal characteristics of the resource.1944-03-131946-04entertainmentground personnelmilitary living conditionsRAF Boscombe DownRAF StradishallWomen’s Auxiliary Air ForceDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.Spatial CoverageSpatial characteristics of the resource.Netherlands--'s-HertogenboschTitleA name given to the resource's-Hertogenbosch [place]DescriptionAn account of the resourceThis is an item about a place. Please use the links below to see all relevant documents available in the Archive.RightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource10 Squadron [concept]PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.DescriptionAn account of the resource10 Squadron was originally formed in 1915 at Farnborough. In 1939, the squadron was part of 4 Group Bomber Command and the Squadron’s Whitleys carried out leaflet-dropping raids over Germany during the early months of the war. The squadron converted to Halifaxes in 1941, and a detachment was sent to Aqir in July 1942, to form the nucleus of No. 462 Squadron. It was transferred to Transport Command in May 1945 and is still operational today.
It was stationed at: RAF Dishforth, RAF Leeming and RAF Melbourne.
Aircraft flown included: Whitley and Halifax.
Wartime losses: 856
ContributorAn entity responsible for making contributions to the resourceClare BennettJulian Maslin10 SquadronHalifaxRAF DishforthRAF LeemingRAF MelbourneWhitleyhttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/997/10472/SMaddockLyonR2205669v10018.1.jpgf2ae64d6603a60e1fa60096065cd4219Dublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resourceMaddock-Lyon, Roy. Scrap book PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.IdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextMaddock-Lyon, RDateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource2016-03-21DescriptionAn account of the resource20 pages. The scrap book contains items about Roy Maddock-Lyon's aircraft being shot down over Holbæk in Denmark 14 February 1945 and his subsequent evasion. It contains correspondence, photographs of the wreckage of his aircraft ZA-X, and what happened to his crew.<br />
<p>This collection also contains items concerning John Grayshan and Albert Berry. Additional information on <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/grayshan-j-%C2%A5/">John Grayshan</a> and <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/berry-aj-%C2%A5/">Albert Berry</a> is available via the&nbsp;IBCC Losses Database.</p>Dublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource10 Squadron Crest and Service Sheet for the Memorial stone unveiling for Flying Officer John Grayshan and Sergeant Albert BerryDescriptionAn account of the resourceItem 1 is a colour crest of 10 Squadron, captioned '10 Squadron Insignia'.
Item 2 is an order of service to mark the unveiling of the Memorial Stones for Flying Officer John Grayshan and Sergeant Alber Berry.DateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource1945-08-26FormatThe file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resourceOne colour print and one printed sheet on an album pageLanguageA language of the resourceenglatdanTypeThe nature or genre of the resourceArtworkTextIdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextSMaddockLyonR2205669v10018CoverageThe spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevantRoyal Air ForceRoyal Air Force. Bomber CommandSpatial CoverageSpatial characteristics of the resource.DenmarkDenmark--HolbækPublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.Temporal CoverageTemporal characteristics of the resource.1945-08-2610 Squadronaircrewnavigatorpilothttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/371/6124/SCavalierRG1264567v10008-0001.1.jpg2b7d4dd4e778702227b970a0c477a2d8https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/371/6124/SCavalierRG1264567v10008-0002.1.jpg00e3d3a8554b4e113b8f499ac5348b53Dublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resourceCavalier, Reginald George. Album twoDescriptionAn account of the resource35 items. The album contains service material, Christmas cards, and propaganda leaflets in German, French and English. PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveDateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource2017-04-10IdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextCavalier, RGRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.Transcribed documentA resource consisting primarily of words for reading.TranscriptionText transcribed from audio recording or document„Wir werden von nun an Deutschland in immer grösserem Maßstab mit Bomben belege, Monat auf Monat, Jahr auf Jahr, bis das Naziregime entweder von uns ausgerottet ist, oder – besser noch – bis ihm das deutsche Volk selbst den Garaus macht.“
CHURCHILL :
14:VII:1941
Am 30. Mai 1942
Der erste Angriff
mit über
1000 Bombern
Der zweite folgte am 1. Juni
Nach diesem Angriff erklärte Churchill
„Diese beiden grossen Nachtangriffe kennzeichnen den Beginn einer neuen Phase der britischen Luftoffensive gegen Deutschland. Und diese Offensive wird bedeutend an Wacht zunehmen, wenn erst – wie das bald der Fall sein wird – die amerikanische Luftwaffe an den Angriffen teilnimmt.
„Deutsche Städte , Häfen und kriegswichtige Industriegebiete werden einer so schweren Prüfung unterworfen werden, wie sie noch kein Land, weder an Dauer, Wucht oder Ausmass erfahren hat“
[page break]
ENGLANDS ANGEBOT
[bullet] Gerechtigkeit für alle, auch die Deutschen
„Gerecht für die von Deutschland versklavten Völker, Gerechtigkeit für uns selbst, Gerechtigkeit für Deutschland.“
[italics] Lord Cranborne [/italics]
[bullet] Bestrafung der Verbrecher
„Harte, unbeugsame Gerechtigkeit für jene Deutschen, die sich der abscheulichen Verbrechen schuldig gemacht haben, deren Zeugen wir waren.“
[italics] Lord Cranborne [/italics]
[bullet] Wirtschaftliche Gleichberechtigung, Arbeit und Sicherheit
„Gleichberechtigung für Sieger und Besiegte im freien Zugang zu den Rohstoffen der Welt, Arbeit und soziale Sicherheit für alle.“
[italics] Roosevelt-Churchill Erklärung [/italics]
ENGLANDS FORDERUNG
[bullet] Das deutsche Volk muss selbst handeln, um sich von Hitlers Gangsterherrschaft zu befreien
„Wenn daher wirklich irgend ein Teil des deutschen Volkes eine Rückkehr zu einem deutschen Staat herbeigeführt sehen will, der auf der Achtung vor dem Gesetz und den Rechten des Einzelnen beruht, dann müssen diese Menschen verstehen, dass niemand ihnen glauben wird, bevor sie nicht aktive Schritte unternommen haben, um sich von dem jetzigen Regime zu befreien“
[italics] Aussenminister Eden [/italics]
„Keiner kann neutral bleiben. Jeder muss durch seine Taten zeigen, wo er steht: ob gegen uns die Freiheit, oder an unserer Seite in der grossen Armee der werdenden Welt.“
[italics] Roosevelt-Churchill Erklärung [/italics]Dublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource1000 BombernDescriptionAn account of the resourcePropaganda leaflet for the German population.
Page 1. announces that the first two 1000 Bomber raids have taken place and promises more.
Page 2 sets out the rights a defeated Germany can expect from the Allies and calls on Germans themselves to defeat Hitler and end the war.FormatThe file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resourceTwo sides of a printed sheetLanguageA language of the resourcedeuTypeThe nature or genre of the resourceTextIdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextSCavalierRG1264567v10008-0001, SCavalierRG1264567v10008-0002CoverageThe spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevantCivilianPublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.Temporal CoverageTemporal characteristics of the resource.1942ContributorAn entity responsible for making contributions to the resourceFrances GrundybombingChurchill, Winston (1874-1965)perception of bombing warpropagandaDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource101 Squadron [concept]DescriptionAn account of the resource101 Squadron served in the First World War and was re-formed in March 1928. During the Second World War, they flew Blenheims until May 1941 as part of 2 and 3 Group Bomber Command. The squadron was moved to 1 Group in October 1942, it converted to the Lancaster and in June 1943 moved to RAF Ludford Magna in Lincolnshire. It began operations with Airborne Cigar in 1944. This entailed carrying an additional crew member and equipment used to jam the German night fighter controllers. The squadron was disbanded in 1957.
It was stationed at: RAF West Raynham, RAF Oakington, RAF Bourn, RAF Stradishall, RAF Home-on-Spalding Moor and RAF Ludford Magna.
Aircraft flown included: Blenheim, Wellington and Lancaster.
Wartime losses: 1170PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveContributorAn entity responsible for making contributions to the resourceGemma ClaptonTrevor HardcastleRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.1 Group101 Squadron2 Group3 GroupBlenheimLancasterRAF BournRAF Holme-on-Spalding MoorRAF Ludford MagnaRAF OakingtonRAF StradishallRAF West RaynhamWellingtonhttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/187/2462/SMarshallS1594781v10025.1.jpg23330e5b1a0e3312a2879cdc59e85690Dublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resourceMarshall Syd. AlbumIdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextMarshall, SDescriptionAn account of the resource77 items. The album contains wartime and post-war photographs, newspaper cuttings, and memorabilia assembled by Warrant Officer Sidney Charles Marshall (1924 - 2017, 1594781 Royal Air Force). Syd Marshall was a flight engineer with 103 Squadron and flew operations from RAF Elsham Wolds.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Syd Marshall and catalogued by Barry Hunter.PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.Dublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource103 Bomber Squadron Honours and AwardsDescriptionAn account of the resourceA plaque detailing the honours and awards received by aircrew of 103 SquadronFormatThe file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resourceOne b/w photograph on an album pageLanguageA language of the resourceengTypeThe nature or genre of the resourcePhotographPhysical objectIdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextSMarshallS1594781v10025CoverageThe spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevantRoyal Air ForceRoyal Air Force. Bomber CommandPublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.103 SquadronDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource103 Squadron [concept]DescriptionAn account of the resource103 Squadron originally formed in September 1917 as part of the Royal Flying Corps and was re-formed in August 1936. At the start of the war, it was part of the Advanced Air Striking Force. The squadron withdrew to England with only eight aircraft at the fall of France and was re-equipped with Wellingtons as part of 1 Group Bomber Command. The Squadron moved to the new station at RAF Elsham Wolds in July 1941 where it remained for the rest of the war. It converted to Halifaxes and later Lancasters. It was disbanded in November 1945.
It was stationed at: France, RAF Abingdon, RAF Newton and RAF Elsham Wolds.
Aircraft flown included: Battle, Wellington, Halifax, and Lancaster.
Wartime losses: 1155PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveContributorAn entity responsible for making contributions to the resourceGemma ClaptonRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.1 Group103 SquadronBattleHalifaxLancasterRAF AbingdonRAF Elsham WoldsRAF NewtonWellingtonDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource104 Squadron [concept]PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.DescriptionAn account of the resource104 Squadron was originally formed during the First World War and reformed in 1936. It converted to Blenheims in 1938 and was a training squadron until April 1940 when it was absorbed into 13 Operational Training Unit. It was reformed again in April 1941 as part of 4 Group at RAF Driffield from where it flew Wellingtons on night bombing operations. In October 1941 a detachment from the squadron was posted to Malta, transferring to Egypt as a full squadron in January 1942. It continued to operate Wellingtons from Egypt, Tunisia and Italy until it converted to B-24s in February 1945.
It was stationed at: RAF Bassingbourn, RAF Bicester and RAF Driffield.
Aircraft flown included: Blenheim and Wellington.
Wartime losses: 88ContributorAn entity responsible for making contributions to the resourceNigel Moore104 Squadron4 GroupBlenheimRAF BicesterRAF DriffieldtrainingWellingtonDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource106 Squadron [concept]PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.DescriptionAn account of the resource106 Squadron was formed in 1917 and reformed in 1938. At first it was a reserve bomber squadron flying Hampdens as part of 5 Group stationed at RAF Cottesmore. It moved to RAF Finningley and RAF Coningsby where it converted to Manchesters and then Lancasters in 1942. It then moved to RAF Syerston before moving to RAF Metheringham in November 1943 where it remained until February 1946.
It was stationed at: RAF Cottesmore, RAF Finningley, RAF Coningsby, RAF Syerston and RAF Metheringham.
Aircraft flown included: Hampden, Manchester and Lancaster.
Wartime losses: 989ContributorAn entity responsible for making contributions to the resourceClare BennettJulian MaslinGemma Clapton106 Squadron5 GroupHampdenLancasterManchesterRAF ConingsbyRAF CottesmoreRAF FinningleyRAF MetheringhamRAF Syerstonhttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/367/5873/PCavalierRG17010037.1.jpg0f8dc873321cd377e4f8079e1fb4f505Dublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resourceCavalier, Reginald George. Album oneDescriptionAn account of the resource57 items. Photograph album showing pictures taken during Reginald George Cavalier's service as a squadron photographer. It includes material from his photographic course training in 1940, and service with 76 Squadron at RAF Middleton St George, and with 88 Squadron and 226 Squadron with 2 Group and 2nd Tactical Air Force at RAF West Raynham. The album also includes target photographs, images of Christmas parties, visits by VIPs including Eisenhower and the King, as well as captured German ordnance and aircraft in France, the Netherlands and Germany.
PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveDateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource2017-04-10
RightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.IdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextCavalier, RGDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource107 Squadron BostonsDescriptionAn account of the resourcePhotograph 1 is an air-to-air view of two Bostons, starboard side.
Photograph 2 is an air-to-air view of five Bostons, port side.
Captioned 'R.A.F. West Raynham, 107 Sqd Boston A/C. Sept 1942.'
Photograph 3 is an air-to-air view of one Boston, port side.
Photograph 4 and 5 are of a Boston with a collapsed nose wheel resting nose down. Captioned 'Crashed Boston A/C, 107 Sqd, Massingham, Norfolk, Sept 1942.'DateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource1942-09FormatThe file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resourceFive b/w photographs on an album pageTypeThe nature or genre of the resourcePhotographIdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextPCavalierRG17010037CoverageThe spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevantRoyal Air ForceRoyal Air Force. Bomber CommandTemporal CoverageTemporal characteristics of the resource.1942-09PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.Spatial CoverageSpatial characteristics of the resource.Great BritainEngland--Norfolk107 SquadronBostoncrashRAF MassinghamRAF West Raynhamhttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/367/5872/PCavalierRG17010036.1.jpg814bb3ec7b9ab514b11f9befaa5b3bf1Dublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resourceCavalier, Reginald George. Album oneDescriptionAn account of the resource57 items. Photograph album showing pictures taken during Reginald George Cavalier's service as a squadron photographer. It includes material from his photographic course training in 1940, and service with 76 Squadron at RAF Middleton St George, and with 88 Squadron and 226 Squadron with 2 Group and 2nd Tactical Air Force at RAF West Raynham. The album also includes target photographs, images of Christmas parties, visits by VIPs including Eisenhower and the King, as well as captured German ordnance and aircraft in France, the Netherlands and Germany.
PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveDateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource2017-04-10
RightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.IdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextCavalier, RGDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource107 Squadron group photographsDescriptionAn account of the resourceGroups of airmen arranged in front of Boston aircraft.
Captioned
'R.A.F. West Raynham, 5th July 1943. 107 Sqd Boston A/C,
107 Sqd, Officers, C.O. W/C. England.
107 Sqd, Senior N.C.O.
107 Sqd, A. Flight.
107 Sqd, B. Flight.'DateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource1943-07-05FormatThe file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resourceFive b/w photographs on an album pageTypeThe nature or genre of the resourcePhotographIdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextPCavalierRG17010036CoverageThe spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevantRoyal Air ForceRoyal Air Force. Bomber CommandTemporal CoverageTemporal characteristics of the resource.1943-07-05PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.Spatial CoverageSpatial characteristics of the resource.Great BritainEngland--Norfolk107 SquadronaircrewBostonRAF West RaynhamDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource109 Squadron [concept]PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.DescriptionAn account of the resource109 Squadron was reformed at RAF Boscombe Down in 1940 as part of the Wireless Intelligence Development Unit. IN 1942, its new role was to assist in the development of the Oboe navigation aid. In August 1943 the squadron moved to RAF Wyton, and became part of the No.8 Group, the Pathfinder Force. It became operational 20 December 1943 and remained part of 8 Group for the rest of the war.
It was stationed at: RAF Boscombe Down, RAF Tempsford, RAF Stradishall, RAF Wyton, RAF Marham and RAF Little Staunton. Aircraft flown included: Whitley, Anson, Wellington, Lancaster and Mosquito.
Wartime losses: 62ContributorAn entity responsible for making contributions to the resourceClare BennettJulian Maslin109 SquadronAnsonLancasterMosquitoRAF Boscombe DownRAF Little StaughtonRAF MarhamRAF StradishallRAF TempsfordRAF WytonWellingtonWhitleyhttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/187/2535/SMarshallS1594781v10075.1.jpg3d912b7eb4ab340783caf2b485ffbf0fDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resourceMarshall Syd. AlbumIdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextMarshall, SDescriptionAn account of the resource77 items. The album contains wartime and post-war photographs, newspaper cuttings, and memorabilia assembled by Warrant Officer Sidney Charles Marshall (1924 - 2017, 1594781 Royal Air Force). Syd Marshall was a flight engineer with 103 Squadron and flew operations from RAF Elsham Wolds.
The collection has been loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by Syd Marshall and catalogued by Barry Hunter.PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.Dublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource10th Anniversary ReunionDescriptionAn account of the resourceRAF Elsham Wolds Association 10th anniversary reunion. A programme of events, captioned 'Mrs M. Marshall'.CreatorAn entity primarily responsible for making the resourceRAF Elsham Wolds AssociationDateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource1989-08-26FormatThe file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resourceOne printed sheet on an album pageLanguageA language of the resourceengTypeThe nature or genre of the resourceTextCoverageThe spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevantRoyal Air ForceRoyal Air Force. Bomber CommandSpatial CoverageSpatial characteristics of the resource.Great BritainEngland--LincolnshirePublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.IdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextSMarshallS1594781v10075.1Temporal CoverageTemporal characteristics of the resource.1989-08-26RAF Elsham Woldshttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/377/6650/PDavisS16020007.2.jpg1da00687821edc9821de6b925f541c9ehttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/377/6650/PDavisS16020008.2.jpg1ccf69976a468dcd3d6aaaea40ab5af7Dublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource11 men on airfieldDescriptionAn account of the resourceEleven men, nine in uniform tunic with side caps and two in suits, sitting and standing in two rows. Stephen Dawson is second from the left in rear row. In the background a open airfield with trees in the distance. On the reverse top row 'Green B. W., Dawson S.R., Ismay G, Faulkner, Cope F, Chamberlain'
Front row 'Hunter, [gap] , Wilson, Duigan, Bishop'.FormatThe file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resourceOne b/w photographTypeThe nature or genre of the resourcePhotographIdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextPDavisS16020007, PDavisS16020008CoverageThe spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevantRoyal Air ForceIs Part OfA related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.PDawsonSR1602PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/165/2244/PWrightJ1542.2.jpgc6bd65f184feadcdf5fd94e3cf77d9ddDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resourceWright, JimJ R WrightPublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveDateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource2015-05-21RightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy. IdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextWright, JDescriptionAn account of the resource91 items. The collection contains two oral history interviews with Jim Wright, letters, cuttings and photographs. It concerns James Roy Wright’s research into his father, Sergeant Arthur Charles Wright (1911 - 1943, 1149750 Royal Air Force) and an operation to Turin 12/13 July 1943 which caused 100 aircraft to violate Swiss airspace. Two aircraft were shot down or crashed in Switzerland. There are many photographs and details of the activities that night including reports by the Swiss authorities. The crews are identified with photographs and there are several photographs of the funerals at Vevey. Additional material includes aerial photograph of bomb damage in Germany. <br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by Jim Wright and catalogued by Nigel Huckins, with descriptions of official Swiss documents provided Gilvray Williams. <br /><br />Additional information on Arthur Charles Wright is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/wright-ac/">IBCC Losses Database</a>. This collection also contains items concerning Hugh Burke Bolger and his crew. Additional information on Hugh Burke Bolger is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/bolger-hb/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.Dublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource11 operational training unit RAF Uphaven 1942DateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource1942FormatThe file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resourceOne b/w photograph on an album pageLanguageA language of the resourceengTypeThe nature or genre of the resourcePhotographIdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextPWrightJ1542CoverageThe spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevantRoyal Air ForceRoyal Air Force. Bomber CommandSpatial CoverageSpatial characteristics of the resource.Great BritainEngland--WiltshireTemporal CoverageTemporal characteristics of the resource.1942RightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveDescriptionAn account of the resourceGroup of airmen arranged in four rows. Captioned '11th O.T.U. R.A.F. Upavon 1942 All Bomber command a/c'.
At the top each airman is named -
'Sgt Chapman Sgt Anderson Sgt Burton Sgt Lipton W/O Kellaway (Back row 3rd from right Kellaway became sqn/ldr over 60 ops DSO & Bar APC.) W/O Wilson F/O A.C. Cochrane
F/O C Burton, F/Lt D Bell, P/O F Parker, P/O A Abecassis, P/O TC Cooke, P/O G. Silvester, P/O S. Shute, P/O R. Smith, P/O N.C.C. Ramsey
O M Gardener, P/O I. Sang, P/O A Ratajezar, F/Lt P Berry, F/O R Marriott, F/O S Feugere, P/O A Caunt P/O E Lyon, F/O J Atkins, F/O H Phillips, F/O G Howard, F/O R Potter F/O R Allesbrook
Sgt J Holleway F/Lt E Bailey F/Lt J Fostee, S/ldr A Boyd AFC S/ldr F Knight W/cdr G Donaldson G/Capt A Holmes AFC S/ldr M FosterS/ldr R Cox F/Lt J Hatton F/Lt H Gaby F/Lt P [undecipherable] F/Lt R Smith'.CreatorAn entity primarily responsible for making the resourceGreat Britain. Royal Air Forceoperational training unitRAF Upavontraininghttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/53/649/PBoldyDA15020003.1.jpg50b32584ac8b2be76b4a2be7b5ee9440https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/53/649/PBoldyDA15020005.1.jpg88400b0f63d4502a69b965524474feecDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resourceBoldy, DavidDave BoldyD A BoldyDescriptionAn account of the resource334 items. The collection concerns Flight Sergeant David Adrian Boldy (1918 – 1942, 923995 Royal Air Force) and consists of his school reports, letters from school and photographs of family and locations in India, letters from training and service, and photographs from his social life and time training. It also includes newspaper cuttings and letters about him being missing in action. David Boldy was born and attended school in India and studied law at Kings College London. He volunteered for the Royal Air Force and trained as an air gunner in South Africa. He flew operations in Manchesters and Lancasters with 207 Squadron from RAF Bottesford. His aircraft failed to return from an operation to Gdańsk 11 July 1942. <br /><br />The collection has been donated to the IBCC Digital Archive by David Boldy and catalogued by IBCC Digital Archive staff.<br /><br />Additional information on David Boldy is available via the <a href="https://internationalbcc.co.uk/losses/boldy-da/">IBCC Losses Database</a>.PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. Some items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties, to comply with intellectual property regulations, or have been assessed as medium or low priority according to the IBCC Digital Archive collection policy and will therefore be published at a later stage. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collection-policy. IdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextBoldy, DADublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource12 aircrew in front of an AnsonSubjectThe topic of the resourceWorld War (1939-1945)Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Bomber CommandDescriptionAn account of the resourceGroup portrait of 12 aircrew in front of an Anson. Arms folded, six are standing and six sitting on a bench, all wearing khaki drill open-knecked shirts with rolled-up sleeves, shorts, long socks and shoes. Another airmanis looking out of the starboard side cockpit window. A hangar is visible in the background.FormatThe file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resourceTwo b/w photographsPublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.TypeThe nature or genre of the resourcePhotographIdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextPBoldyDA15020003, PBoldyDA15020005CoverageThe spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevantRoyal Air ForceIs Part OfA related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.Boldy, David. Miscellaneous folder PBoldyDA1502aircrewAnsonhangartraininghttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/147/1482/PColeC1607.1.jpg10040c79ac61e4b349c8ff2e204b328ehttps://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/147/1482/PColeC1608.1.jpge6a13ff94513e1387526ef367d497229Dublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resourceCole, ColinC ColeColin ColeDescriptionAn account of the resource30 items. The collection relates to Warrant Officer Colin Cole (1924 – 2015 RAF Volunteer Reserve 1605385) who served with 617 Squadron. The collection contains an oral history interview, logbook, service documents, medals, memorabilia from the Tirpitz and six photographs. RightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. Six items have not been published in order to protect the privacy of third parties or to comply with intellectual property regulations. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.PublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveDateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource2016-01-272015-07-27IdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextCole, CDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.TitleA name given to the resource12 airmenDescriptionAn account of the resourceGroup of 12 airmen and one civilian, arranged in two rows, three kneeling at the front, eight standing behind. On the wall are squadron crests. Captioned on the reverse 'Binbrook 46 4/14 Colin Cole'. DateA point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource1946FormatThe file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resourceOne b/w photographIdentifierAn unambiguous reference to the resource within a given contextPColeC1607PColeC1608CoverageThe spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevantRoyal Air ForceRoyal Air Force. Bomber CommandCivilianSpatial CoverageSpatial characteristics of the resource.Great BritainEngland--LincolnshirePublisherAn entity responsible for making the resource availableIBCC Digital ArchiveRightsInformation about rights held in and over the resourceThis content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.TypeThe nature or genre of the resourcePhotographTemporal CoverageTemporal characteristics of the resource.1946aircrewnavigatorpilotRAF Binbrookwireless operator